X-men Origins - Wolverine - PS3

Blarrgh, so I just finished this game. I will probable do 2 post for this. One where I talk about the game, the other , "Getting all your Trophies"

As Movie games go, this one isn't that bad. I must say that I really enjoyed my "FIRST" play through of the game. I read the reviews and listened to the podcast about this game before I went out and got it. And I must say, that I think most (not all)of the negativity about this game was not warranted.

One complaint was," It didn't bring anything new to the table, it was a mish-mash of God of War and some other game I can't remember."
My response, Why is that a bad thing?!, does every game you play have to be ground breaking in order for it to be fun or even a good game?! Some nerd shouting," I can't stand games that are like games I played last week!!"pfft!! Get over it, don't be so damn anal!!

Second complaint comes from the the 1 up podcast. They say that the violence is too over the top and doesn't add anything to the game, infact, its TOO much!! That they don't think Wolverine is that violent.
My response, I love the violence that is wolverine. I think they hit the nail on the head with Wolverine. In the 90's, in his books, sheesh, he gut his own mother if she got in his way during one of his berserker rages. That was the point of wolverine, he's a great fighter to have on your team, but let him loose and his just has likely to turn on you in the heat of battle. IT was only later that they started giving him...what's that called again...oh yeah...Feeeeelings!!
So screw the 1up guys on that, maybe wolverine should have talked his problems out with the machete men.


Story-
I was disappointed that the game didn't take the liberty to do their own story line, something separate from the movie. Instead you get a crappy movie plot shoved into little cut scenes. Its like getting forced fed until your gaggin on all the one liners and campy dialogue. All the little bits of dialogue that got a laugh in the movie, or big superheroey lines were rehashed in this game, with the subtle of a sledgehammer to the head.

Spoiler Alert!!!
To be fair, they did mix it up a bit. I mean the overall plot of the movie is in the game, but they took liberties of adding bits. Their trip through the jungle with flash backs. So at one point you get to be in a Sentinel factory and fight a giant Sentinel . Easily the coolest looking battle in the game.

You get to see "Ravens" take on, Nightcrawler. Who is his daddy?!!..well, its some guy from the Black eye peas and Mystique. Wanna know what Mystique finds attractive?!!.....When people don't kill her. Its a hard life she lives, everyone trying to kill her. Then one day, some teleporting Pop star comes by, and say,"baby, I ain't gonna shoot you today, infact, I think we should have babies." Its all very silly. End Spoiler


Gameplay -
I don't want to make this long winded, I liked it. Yes, its has elements of the battle system from God of war, and it was fun. I enjoyed lunging to enemies, ripping off arms and beating some dingbat to death with it. It was very enjoyable. In my first playthrough, I didn't get bored at all killing the baddies. There was a wide variety of ways to kill them and they all had different animations for their deaths, well done. Lunge, stab, jump into the air and lunge back down, stab, pick em up and and stab him in the gut with both claws and rip em into. See, great stuff.


Look-
It had alot of frames dropping. Almost every time a new area came in, or the camera switched to close up of a fight, the characters, BG, would all be smooth, and then the textures would pop in over them. One minute you would be looking at wall, its all grey smooth, then its all textured up. Same for characters. Now this wasn't a bad thing, just annoying The cutscenes on the other hand, (the rendered ones) were awesome. The hair, the skin, the lighting was fantastic.

Controls-
I have no complaint. Nothing to say, they worked. Its not too often that a game has controls so awful that it just makes it not fun to play a game. I'm still baffled over RE5, I picked that up and shheesh. Good game or not, the controls are the worst I've EVER played on ANY game. That's right, I said it, ANY GAME!!!

Over all there were some really silly things that made me laugh throughout the game.

1)The Magic Shirt - Wolverine starts the game in his white t-shirt and has he takes damage, his shirt gets shot and cut up till there's nothing left. He's shirtless, that's what I noticed while playing. But what I didn't know, was .....good god, Wolverine can heal his shirt back on...WOW....seriously, has you take damage on your naked torso, he will heal parts of his shirt back on, its pretty funny.



2)Black Man Hand - At some point in the game, wolverine needs the hand print of some person to get through to the next area. He finds the guy and he's a black scientist. He then cuts this dudes hand off and we go back to the door and he puts the hand on the scanner, but wait. Didn't we just chop a black guys hand off?!!..so why the hell is their a white guys hand being used on the scanner. Does he have a pocket full of human hands lying around for just such an occasion.???

3) Gambit's Mullet - If you are going to make a character and base it off a movie character. Then why the god did you feel it was necessary to give him a mullet.? I just about shit my pants when I saw Gambit and his "Ultimate Warrior" Hair-Do. "Mon fere" this and "Mon Fere" that, he was a joke in this game.



So with all that said, I enjoyed the game. It was plain and simple fun. Nothing spectacular, nothing horrible. What was good was great and what was bad was bearable. Like I said, I will do another one , describing how to get your platinum trophy. God, that's when this game starts to hurt.

7/10

This is a cool ad, but it would have been better if you saw wolverines claws being used. I mean why the hell did he use his head to bang his way out of the cage??!!

Video Game Cereals

After seeing the new terminator this week. I came across Christian Bale in this Ad for a Cereal based off a awesome video game, Pacman. Man, that lad can dance. I wonder how many times he cursed out the people around him!!! That's right, because Batman says so!!



I don't care about any other movie he's been in. He will always be angry batman to me.

Here are a few other video game based cereal ads. Enjoy!!













Thats it, I want a GTA cereal. Now with a condom or knife in every box!!!

Beating Bioshock on Survival Mode - PS3

My fourth Platinum Trophy is courtesy of BioShock. Yeah, I know I'm way behind the times for this game. But whether you played it when it first came out, or now, its still a great game.
The main reason for playing this game until now was, I didn't own a Xbox and when I finally did get an Xbox, I heard it was coming out for the Ps3 with Trophies. Then when it did come out it was $55.00. This was 3 years after the release date, so I waited a few months and it went down to $30. This game is a steal for $30, especially with all the new content. So I'm glad I waited.

So if you played the Xbox version, it goes up to Hard. The Ps3 version has a step up, Survival. DUuu, Duuu Duuuuuuuuuu!!!! The last trophy, beat the game on survival mode and beat the game without using vitality chambers. That part is easy, just save alot. IF you die, reload from last save, done and done.


My first play through was on Hard, and to be honest, I really didn't notice it to be ridiculous hard at all. If you play any FPS, then just be quick with your shots and dodge and move. But on Survival, I am always a little nervous playing a level up from the "HARD" mode. Hell mode, nightmare mode, etc, they all have that, "your not gonna like this" tone about them.



But Survival mode is hard in the beginning, because most things can kill you in 2-3 hits. But has you progress and get upgrades, it gets alot easier. So here are my tips for beating Bioshock on Survival mode.

1) Save often, every time I entered a new room that I knew would be enemies, I saved.
I forgot to save once after beating a Rosie and end up being beat by a slicer in the next room and went back to fighting the Rosie again.

2)When you get the camera, take pictures of all the enemies. This will make your life alot easier when you upgrade your damage on all these enemies and the new tonics they give you.

3)Upgrade your physical and Combat tonics slots first. These will greatly improve your defense against baddies

4)Plasmids, the only ones I used was Electric Bolt level 3, telekinesis, incinerate level 1, hypnotize big daddy level 2. All these worked just fine, which makes it easier to spend your adam on other physical and combat tonics.

5)Fighting Big Daddies, In survival, the big daddies can kill you in one hit and the Rosies can kill you in 2 shots, or one grenade. They don't mess around in Survival mode. What I did was look for a spot in the area that I could play peek-a-boo or run around in circles. Like a fruit stand, or some machinery that I could just constantly run around. Turn and shoot and keep moving. Always have full healing items before starting a fight with one of these on Survival mode, You'll need them.



6) One may think that you will have to conserve ammo on survival mode. Well in the beginning level, yes. But once you get into the second level, you can pretty much pummel the baddies with your bullets. The 3rd level and up, I was pretty much always had full ammo.



That's about it, I died alot, but no where near as much has killzone 2. So far, killzone elite mode was the hardest I've played on any game. Bioshock was a breeze compared to that. So go ahead, get yourself a Platinum trophy, it was pretty easy. Time consuming, but not ridiculous hard.



Another side note, I was looking over the trophies and they have a list of DLC trophies, which I thought I would have to download the extra content to get my platinum trophy. But nope, you can beat the game and get all the regular trophies and still get your platinum trophy. Although my completion is 86%, I don't have to pay an extra $10 bucks to get the platinum. I likey that!!


Great game. Not too excited about the 2nd, no reason, just because. I waited 4 years for Bioshock, I can wait just has long for the 2nd one.

9/10

Instead of game shots, which everyone has seen. I figure a bunch of game art would be more interesting.

New Grounds Street Fighter Collab

Newgrounds finally released their Street Fighter (flash animation) Collaboration, and it was well worth the wait! These cartoons are really short, funny and some are very NSFW, so watch at home or right in front of your boss to show him/her you love him/her. See I can be politically correct.... assholes.

Now go watch some cartoons!!

Some other collabs from the site:

Blamformers

Queers of War

MGS: Flash Collab DISC 01

MGS: Flash Collab DISC 02

Pacroid Does The Curtis and Tara Show

I know this isn't game related, so I will make it game related.

1) I like games.

2) I like the upcoming Batman game.

3) This Curtis likes Batman, (although he denies it)

4)Curtis and Tara does a Podcast, where he talked about Batman the movie once.

5)The same Batman that I like in video games.

There, its linked, so no complaining.

This is what happens when I have to make my own Curtis and Tara shows because there was a dry spell.




A Great show about nothing and everything, Pacroid Approved!!!
http://www.curtisandtara.blogspot.com/

Muscle Men in Bikini's

What on Gods green earth is this?? There's no words for this. Who is this geared towards. Wouldn't it work with cute cuddly characters?!..why muscle guys??
Click the link and make your own decesions.

Click here.

Burn Zombie Burn - PSN

I was looking for something new to download from the PSN store. Something that you can play for 15-20 min, have a good time and move on. The only thing I don't like about the PSN store, is that there are very few previews of the games that you can buy. So all you can see on the store, is the title and a brief description of the game. I think this is something that they really need to change in the store. I can safely say, that I will NOT buy a game based off a description alone. A little bit of game footage goes along way.

Needless to say I went online to look up some PSN games. The reviews and the video of Burn Zombie Burn, seemed quite interesting. Its essentially Super Smash TV but with Zombies.


This has all the Zombie goodness anyone would want in a little game like this. It has the lawnmower like in the Movie ,"Dead Alive". The chainsaw, like in Evil dead, infact you could say that a few of the weapons are from evil dead, the chainsaw and the boomstick. Tons of weapons offer a great variety of ways to dispatch your enemies. The bat, while really slow, sends your baddies flying towards the screen, much like the old ninja turtle game, Turtles in Time, when they fought Shredder.



One thing that confused me was the select weapon choice. I thought that you could collect weapons and they would be in an inventory, but really what it is, it just replaces the weapon that you have. What the weapon select button does is just shows you were the next weapon is located on the map. duuhhhhh!!!



Anywho, you can set Zombies on fire, they run away from fire, but you get more points when they are on fire and give you better power ups for your bombs. There are numerous zombies types, fast, slow, big, poisons, explosive. What you have to do is survive has long has you can, defeating wave after wave of zombies. Once you get the controls down, its really quite fun.

Best thing about it, is that it has co-op. So you and a friend can see how long you can survive the onslaught on enemies. Which is good, because you can watch each other backs. Bad, that you share lives. So I played with friends this weekend, and I didn't die at all, while my friends used all 3 lives.(Ian and Joe) But again, this can be fixed with getting used to the controls.



My only complaints is that this could have been a great game to play co-op online. Alas, there is no online play, only online leader boards. It also takes sometime to get used to the chaos on the screen, "where am i?" was a big thing with me. The game can be has hard or has easy has you want it. With 3 different modes, survival, protect, and bomb the hell outta that thing mode.

Which makes the trophies half and half. The ones that you can get are relative easy to do. While the harder ones, requires you to play for up to 4 hrs without dieing. That's nuts.



Overall, the game is great to play alone and with friends. A great price($9.99) and it keeps you entertained. I guess its like Left for Dead's little cousin.
7.5/10

Must Have Superhero Games- For ME!

When I was younger, I was really into comic books. Not so much anymore, I will occasionally pick up a hard cover of a series of something, but for the most part, I haven't bought a comic in years. But that's not to say that I don't like comic book characters or stories. In fact I try and collect every movie ever made that was based on comic books. But even I have standards.

I have not and will NOT buy Catwoman or Electra. There's Good Bad, then there's BAD BAD, and both of these are just that, BAD BAD.If someone gave them to me, then I would take it like someone who was just given socks on their birthday." Awww, thanks for the ....for the present...you shouldn't have...really..you shouldn't.....I would have been happier if you came with nothing."

I don't do the same thing for games. I don't go and get every game based off all the super heroes. Why? well simple really, most of the super hero games are based of the movie counter part. And we all know how the majority of movie games turn out. The last superhero game I played was MK v DC. I guess that wasn't really a superhero only game, so I guess the last I played was Spiderman, Friend or Foe.

There have been a ton of superhero based games that came out since then, Hulk-the movie, Ironman-the movie, Superman-the movie, etc, etc.

But there ARE 3 games that I am really excited about this year that are superhero games. I can safely say that I WILL be getting all 3. These games, in no particular order are:

1)Wolverine:X-men, Origins.
Yes, Its a movie tie in game, but that's about it. From the reviews that I've been reading, this game is really pretty good. The flaws that are mentioned arn't horrible ones, such has, there's nothing new in the gameplay. (which I am fine with that, I don't mind playing a good game that plays the same has God of War)

Can't wait to cut and gut people, which is what Wolverine should be, badass and covered in blood.



2) Batman, Arkham Asylum.
This just looks amazing. The batman from the original animated batman has come back to do the voice. And Mark Hamil, who does a fantastic Joker has come onboard to do ole chuckle head himself. Everything that they shown so far looks and plays amazing. Unless they screw up royally from now till its released, this should be one outstanding game.




3) Marvel-Ultimate Alliance 2- Fusion.
Sheesh, long enough name. Alot of people don't like these Diablo type games. I love them, the mash button and configure your guy to be what you like. I really dig these types of games. The story could suck and I will still enjoy the game play. Also I had a couple of friends working on this game. So I like to see what they did. This time around you get bad guys and good guys playing together. Much like x-men legends 2. Yes, I know that's not the proper art for the game, there's really not much out for these as of yet.




Out of those 3 games, I think my expectations are the lowest for Marvel-Ultimate Alliance 2. The games art and game shots I've seen so far, look very PS2. Nothing I've seen so far showcases the Ps3 or 360 power. It en game may look different from what I last saw, I hope so. But I'm sure I will enjoy all 3 and have a good time. Which is all that matters.

Game System Commercials

That pic is not me.
I liked all the retro stuff. Anything that reminds me of my childhood really makes me all giddy. I figure I post a few of the commercials that I remember for all the systems that were out during my childhood.

For all of the commercials , I always wanted them to spend more time on the game play. I wanted to see the awesome graphics, the awesome game art on the carts. The just plain Awesome!!



The quality is pretty poor and I didn't have, or don't remember the color plastic screens that you placed on the monitor. But I played this game alot with my Aunt. Yes, my aunt and I would battle it out for high scores. She was really good.



I don't remember this commercial. Especially the Rob the Robot that supposedly comes with the systems. But to be honest I don't remember any Nintendo commercials, I just remember seeing it at the store, and saying"whats that?!"



Then the big war between SNES and Sega Genesis. Blast Processing, whats it do.?!I don't know. I really didn't see a difference between the SNES and Genesis games. Infact, I thought SNES were a little, just a little better looking.



Never owned a Gameboy, played them. Just didn't like the small screen. What the hell is the deal with the robot and shooting lasers from their finger tips. Its like pointing and saying,"Oh, I got you" but then lasers shoot out and you kill your buddy. Trying explaining that to mom, oh, I just melted billy with my finger laser.



What is it and Nintendo putting robots into their commercials. Are we all gonna turn into robots some day if we keep playing Nintendo??!! Well, "I'm safe, I'm don't own a Wii, nor do I plan on getting one.




This one I remember well. Still shittin on Nintendo, which was a shame. I don't remember Nintendo shittin on Sega, I could be wrong. But an angry black dude shouting at me to get a system. Lets just say that I had my Sega CD.



There were lots more systems, tons of commercials. But for me, this is what I grew up with. Lots of fun times. ........................I did do other things besides play games...like shooting and eating beachie birds......berry picking......playing in the ditch.........making mud pies........see, lots of fun times with Little Darryl.

Food Based Games

Well that pretty much rounds it up for games that I played that involved food. I did play cooking mama, but I am not going to review that again.Clickpacroid.blogspot.com/2008/09/cooking-mama-2-dinner-with-friends.html to see what I thought of that. There were other games that had food elements in them, such has power ups or mini games. But nothing worth mentioning in any particular form.

But there are still a handful of games that I haven't played that do invole food themes. Some I wouldn't mind playing, others I couldn't be bothered with. Go to any of the fine review games sites for those particular reviews.


I was particular disappointed with Hells kitchen review, comparing it to a low budget web game. That's sad, even if he called me a"U stupid Donkey" not just Donkey or"you fucking Donut", that alone would sell the game for me, more cursing.




Its way too quite in this game. More Yelling!!!There should be pots and pans flying across the screen that you have to dodge has you cook. Now, its starting to get interesting.

There's even games that teach u to cook for the Nintendo DS. I want a game where it teaches kids to wipe their own ass. That's a great game.



Yes, that's just what I want when I was 5, "MOM, MOM, lets use the Atari to make Kung pow Chicken, can we mom, I just love my Chicken when its been Kunged Powed!!!"


The an Oliver game, never heard of it. Got nothing good to say about it. Trailer looks LAME!!



I found this piece of art online. I would love to play this game. This would be kick ass.
I'm not too sure who the star guys is. IF it was up to me, it be the local place where I grew up. A chicken place called Mary Browns. She could fling shit covered chicken at her opponent


I'm sure I missed games here and there. But if they were good, then I guess I would have mentioned them. I know there are a ton of online web games, such has diner dash being one of the better ones. But I couldn't be bothered with them. With this, I conclude my few post of FOOD BASED GAMES, YAAAAA.

Plaque Attack - Atari 2600

There were alot of games about food on the Atari. This one took its roots from Space Invaders, or Galaga. You were a tube of tooth paste and had to protect your top and bottom teeth from food. So you could switch from shooting down to up. That was different for the times, normally you just shoot one direction. Also, you weren't on a track, so you could move all over the playing field, again, different from the norm.

So what happens here? If the food touches your teeth, then your teeth disappear until you are left with a mouth full of gums. For some reason, if you do well and get a certain score, then your teeth will grow back. Teeth can do that? grow back?...are they like toenails?!

Also if you are a crappy shot with your tube of toothpaste, you could run out of ammo(toothpaste). The you just watch has the food dissolve all your teeth. What kind of food are we talking about here. Well, you've guessed it...HAMBURGERS. The ROOT(hehe) of all evil, there are also, hot dogs, candy canes, lollipops and a few others. I don't ever remember Mom saying, "Darryl, if you eat too many hamburgers your teeth will fall out!"


Eh!..I enjoyed this a bit, the thing was, once you rolled the game, it didn't become fun anymore. The food just moved too fast and it all came down to firing wildly and lots of dumb luck. That sorta takes the fun outta the game. It was alright if I wanted a variation of Space Invaders. This game as well, also had a send in your score and get a badge to show off to all your geeky friends.I don't know how many of the Atari games had this, was it all of them?..I don't know.Any who, its a alright game.

4/10

Pressure Cooker - Atari 2600

Well, I don't know what it is about burgers and video games. Apparently they are a great thing to have in them, whether they are a item that you can collect for points or a health boost, they seem to very popular.

This game I owned on the Atari 2600. The premise was really simple and I think it could translate well to many of the 99cents games that people buy. You were give a list below of 4 items that were thrown at you. God only knows why the food came hurling out at you, couldn't he just run to the other side and pick it up?!! So you have to catch a bun, put it on the conveyor, then get what ever if not all 4 items on the burger and topped off with the top of the bun before it fell off the conveyor. Then you took that burger and put in a colored bag below the main screen . After you got all the bags(orders) filled you made it past the level. Pretty simple, simple fun.

This was a great game, easy to play, easy to get into, if you didn't need the item being thrown at you, you could hold the button and the item would bounce off of you and back at the guy who threw it at you to begin with. So the further you got into the game, the faster and larger the orders became.

The music for this game, (that's right music, there was a great little tune that played at the beginning of the game. But then it turned into the same 5 beats over and over again.) was a catchy little tune and for an Atari 2600 game to have music. WOW!!!!



Atari was great for having badges, that if you got a certain high score, you could take a Polaroid of your TV screen showing the high score, mail it off and they would send you a iron-on badge to go on your cool acid wash jean jacket. I personally never mailed any of my high scores away. For one, my mom would say, "What a waste to take a picture of the TV and then pay to mail it away. Don't you know we only have 4 pictures left on the Polaroid?!!Are you crazy Boy!!!"


Needless to say, my acid wash jean jacket was bare. But if you are looking for a great little addictive game to play for 15-20 min. Then this is a must in the food game dept.

6/10

Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen-NEW GAME TRAILER

Yep, so they released another trailer for the movie game. This one doesn't look half bad. I can't believe I just said that. Anyway, I'm still won't be going out and getting this game...I think...Ok ,Ok...The ONLY way I will get this game, is if the reviews say, "Yeah, its really not that bad, bounds above the first one, not even in the same league has the last game"

Then I will get it. I WANT IT TO BE GOOD....what so wrong with that?!!!..Stupid movie games...mixing what I love with what is stupid. Stupid stupid...I got nothing....enjoy the trailer.

BurgerTime - Any and All Systems

I'd figure I do a theme for the next couple of post. Games about Food, for now, it will be only the ones that I played. I really don't know how many food games are out there, but I remember playing a hand full of them

For the first one, and I have to go with my favorite one, is Burger Time. The first time I played this game was at the local arcade. In my case the local arcade was also the local convenient store. you could go in the back and play games while they sold, Bologna and booze up front, It was a great time.

It captured what we all loved about the early video games, with Donkey Kong climbing platforms and Pac-man with running from Goons.


I guess I should give a little blurb about it, but if you are on this site, reading about video games and never heard of or seen Burger Time, then please leave now and return to twittering or facebooking or whatever else people do with all the time in the world on their hands.

The game was pretty simple, you were a chef who was chased by evil foods I guess, (why these food people didn't want the chief to make hamburgers just baffles me, I mean if they were ingredients to the burger and they were fighting for their lives not to be chopped up and put on a burger, then I would understand. But the villains was an egg, sausage and a pickle, the pickle I understand, but an egg and a sausage.Then wouldn't it be a hotdog and a western sandwich.


I guess the game being called, Hotdog Time or Western Sandwich Time just doesn't have the same ring to it. But who am I to questions these ...things reasoning. Anywho, you have several levels and each plateform has a part of the burger, and when you run across said ingredient, it falls to the bottom. So when the burger is finally all put together you have the great knowledge that all the ingredients were just stamped by some chefs feet into a delicious burger. MMMMMM Foot Stamping Goodness.

You could stop the VILLAINS(look out!, that wiener is high in salt!!!) ...by crushing them between the falling ingredients or by shaking salt on them. Isn't a pickle just a really salty cucumber??..why would he be afraid of salt?...again, don't question these thing, it only makes the brain hurt more.

This game came out on almost all the systems, so it was easy to get. I don't think I ever rolled the game or if there was an ending to it. But I like to get my hands on it again and give it a try and see how far I can take it. It was a fun little game for its time. But thinking about it now, all I can think of is flat salty burgers. That doesn't sound appetizing at all.

7/10
Fantastic Animated Commercial. Makes me all gooey inside.

Castlevania. Dawn of Sorrow - Nintendo DS

Will I guess I should have known from the title what to expect from the game, SORROW!!
This is the first Castlevania I played since Castlevania 2, Simon's Quest. Did I miss something from then till now. Didn't I hear everyone ranting about how good all the Castlevania games were?! Did I just happen to play the only crappy one outta a ton of great Castlevania games??!! I Don't know, am I out of touch with the Castlevania games now and this is what they are suppose to be like??! I don't know. Well enough of this pointless go nowhere banter, lets see what I didn't and did like about the game.




What I liked.
1)The name, "Castlevania."

What I didn't like.
1)The rest of the name, "Dawn of Sorrow." What the hell does that even mean.

2)I HATE, DETEST ANIME, the style of this entire friggin game is ANIME, little tiny mouths, Giant/slanted eyes,big giant spiky hair, Story lines that make no sense, symbolism that, the only way one would be able to understand it, is if they were fried outta their trees. And the biggest complaint of all Anime are the characters, is it a boy??!! or is it a girl??! Doesn't matter, cause they all suck ASSS!!!!

3)GAMEPLAY
At first I didn't mind what I was doing, running around and hitting this with that and killing this and that thing. Until I found out that I could collect enemy powers and use them myself. These powers allowed access to secret areas and areas that you NEEDED to go. So if you didn't have the proper soul equipped you ain't getting through. Not only that, how the hell were you suppose to know what soul did what.

This is mind blowing , I'm standing in front of spikes, I know I have to get across to the other side, But can't. If I jump on them I die. So I equip each soul I have and try all kinds of different things to do. There are alot of souls to get, 99 in all. And getting certain souls are harder to get than others, just because they don't appear all the time, they are RARE souls. Bullshit, it just means leaving the room and re-entering 248 times until finally the enemy gives you the soul that you need to get the next area. That would be fine, but it doesn't tell you what soul you need.



And if it does, where do I find it, where is the enemy on the map, you mean if I don't remember I have to explore the entire friggen map again, looking in each room trying to find a enemy that will give me a specific soul, but how do I know what enemy, YOU DON"T, just kill everything you come arcoss until it gives you the soul that you don't know if you need or not. But knowing that the enemy may or may not give you what you need......what???



You get news papers that give you hints. REALLY!!...... well lets look at this great hint. "Its in the sky, way up". Whats in the sky, what are you referring too, Where is this way up bit you are talking about. There's something way up in the sky?? your saying there's something way up in the sky??!!.......of course there is you frikken idiot. How the hell does that help me do anything.



Another one is"Its seems to be attracted to light". What's attracted to light? Who, WHAT , WHEN and WHERE. These hints are useless. The only way I found anything in this game was by going through a walkthrough. I got stuck countless times. And not the fun, entertaining, what do I do next, let me try some things. Remember the old NES games where you really didn't know what to do. You've been back and fourth through the same 6 rooms again and again and you can't see anything that could lead the way. THE WHOLE FUCKING GAME IS LIKE THIS. I understand that a part , maybe two could be thrown in, but the whole game.

It was not fun, running through the same levels again and again trying things that wouldn't make any sense at all. ITS just like the Simon's Quest game. Where you had to go to a certain area, equip the red orb and squat down for 10 secs to be taken to the next area. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO KNOW THAT!!!!!! Well, this whole game is like that. Just made up random shit.

It doesn't help that the BG elements look like the foreground elements. I can't tell if the chair in the room is something that I am suppose to use or if its just piece of the random BG. So I miss alot of things like that because I just thought it was some random shit piece in a level. But no, that's a area where I have to poop while standing on my head and singing Yanke-Doodle.

I hated this game. This game took took me way too long to finish, why?? I didn"t like it and didn't want to play it. Its the first DS game that I had to look up a walkthrough to get through it. It really felt like work to finish this crap. I really hope that the other games ain't like this one and this was just some random anime shit game that Konami shit out.



I haven't really disliked a game in a while. This one takes the cake for me. For all those who do like it, I guess I am out of touch with what makes a good game, or your all friggen bonkers.

0/10

Yes the gameplay is that exciting. Now imagine doing that and not knowing what you are looking for. OMG, I just went looking for reviews of this game. IGN says," The final product is what is clearly one of the best Castlevania games in the series, and an absolutely top-notch, beautiful, and most importantly, fun DS game" Well that settles it. If this is the best in the series so far, then I guess I just play ball and cup from now on.